Friday, April 04, 2014

The Beano on Sunday

It's not a newspaper I'd usually buy but this weekend I'll make an exception because The Mail on Sunday on April 6th will contain a very interesting free gift, - a complete 32 page all-new edition of The Beano with a print-run of 1.5 million! All the strips are linked to the current "Gnasher's Gone Missing" story to greater or lesser degrees.Here's the official press release from DC Thomson:The Beano has created a special issue that will appear as a free sampler with The Mail on Sunday on 6th April 2014. The sampler will also be available as a digital edition for Mail Plus subscribers.DC Thomson Marketing Manager Cathy Frossard said, “This is the first time we’ve sampled The Beano as widely as this and it’s great to be doing so with such a prominent national title. The Mail on Sunday will open The Beano up to a wide-ranging audience and we’re hoping that, with over 1.5 million copies of The Beano going out with the title, we’ll reach new readers.

“As an additional bonus, we have also agreed for a digital edition of The Beano sampler to be made available to Mail Plus subscribers allowing us to reach online fans too.”

Gnasher is still missing. The special issue of The Beano will feature a guest appearance by Bear Grylls, when Dennis the Menace calls upon Bear to use his tracking skills to help look for Gnasher. The sampler will also provide readers with an exclusive first look at a map of Beanotown. Using a print/online integration app, readers will be encouraged to ‘blipp’ between the print edition and beano.com where the map is hosted. The map features 75 iconic Beanotown locations including the homes of Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and The Bash Street Kids.

Been meaning to say this for awhile but its great to see you blogging again Lew. It's a real highlight of the day to read one of your posts. On the subject of the free Beano I went straight to my local Newsagent and bought the pale.r Sadly there wasn't a bean in there and neither in any of the other copies when I went back there. I guess I have to keep a watch on ebay :-(

Whoa there, anonymous. How is it my fault if the printer has failed to bag up all the comics? Think before you post next time. In fact, don't bother posting next time if you can't do it without insults.

Wow what a truly stupid reply from "Not a happy bunny" I mean even for a troll that's plain daft (sounds like he's a "Sunday Sport" reader to me lol) Anyway I picked up the "Mail on Sunday" today not knowing about this and only as the Scottish papers were all sold out (Sunday Mail, Post, Herald etc) and although I'm not a reader of this paper it has a best of the rest (UK national) Scottish football section - But have to say it was a really nice give away and will be interesting to see if it results in new readers in the future - do DCT publish figures on their sales? (nice to se Hunt Emerons work as well)

The last newspaper I read was The Guardian 18 months ago on Obama's election win. It would take a lot to persuade me to buy the Mail or Sun and I don't think a free Beano would do it but if it helps it to reach a wider audience I suppose that's a good thing.

Looks like the DCT daily The Courier will be giving away the same issue with this Thursdays paper. Not sure how they will distribute it - will it be in every copy or will you have to ask but as The Courier is widely available across most of Scotland it should be easy to find a shop selling it but not necessarily with said free copy.

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I work as a professional humour comics artist and writer and have been freelancing full time since 1984, creating many characters such as TOM THUG, PETE AND HIS PIMPLE, COMBAT COLIN, BRICKMAN, ROBO-CAPERS, DEREK THE TROLL, SUBURBAN SATANISTS and others.
I've freelanced for IPC, Marvel Comics, Egmont, Panini,D.C. Thomson, and many others, covering the comics field from originated characters to licensed properties, pre-school to adult on comics such as BUSTER, OINK!, BEANO, DANDY, TRANSFORMERS, SONIC THE COMIC, TOXIC, VIZ, CiTV TELLYTOTS, LEGO ADVENTURES, HERMAN HEDNING, SWEET FA, ACTION FORCE, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, RAMPAGE, LUCKY BAG COMIC, SWIFTSURE, WARLOCK, WHITE DWARF, ACES WEEKLY, THE DAREDEVILS, THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL, and many more.
My recent comics work has included:'Team Toxic' for Egmont's TOXIC magazine'Postman Prat', 'Kid Cops' and 'The Dark Newt' for THE DANDY'Rasher', 'Pup Parade', 'Lord Snooty' and 'Ivy the Terrible' for THE BEANO.
'Felix and His Amazing Underpants', 'Pathetic Sharks' and 'Suicidal Syd' for adult comic VIZ. 'The Daft Dimension' for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE.